My back is still unhappy. Better, but still unhappy. Bleh.
- Supreme Court Upholds Extended Copyrights [warning: popups]. The Bono Law stands. The court was
not at liberty to second-guess congressional determinations and policy judgments of this order, however debatable or arguably unwise they may be.
[boing boing] - Speaking of Intellectual Property, and the Mouse, $485 Million doesn't count?! talks about why we probably won't see a good Toy Story 3 anytime soon. [flutterby]
- Stop Saying MANPANTIES! The demise of TCPunk. As I understand it, the boards just got to be too much of a hassle to administer.
- Thinking more about online content (following my rant from a couple days ago), people talk about search engine optimization as though it's some sort of holy grail and something every web-developer should be working on. Me, I've always concentrated on making better content, and the search engines seem to find me just fine. That's part of the whole philosophy I try to bring to Better Nerds. Some of our clients want a shortcut to being highly placed in the search engines, but anything you do that cheats the system may work on the engines today, but it could all change tomorrow, and then you may actually be ranked lower than you might have been had you not cheated (message 7 is a good explanation). Google continually tweaks PageRank to try and offer better search results to their customers (that's all of us who use it).
For more on the lawsuit over the changing PageRank results, check out Google replies to SearchKing lawsuit